@johnpowers

Critic at Large for FRESH AIR WITH TERRY GROSS

 Pasadena, California
Joined November 2012
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Deadline
@DEADLINE30 Jan 2024
One of the nation’s top film critics, Justin Chang, is leaving the beleaguered Los Angeles Times, taking his fluid prose and winning personality to The New Yorker deadline.com/2024/01/justin-…

Justin Chang, Leading Film Critic, Leaves Los Angeles Times For The New Yorker

One of the nation’s top film critics, Justin Chang, is leaving the beleaguered Los Angeles Times and moving to The New Yorker.

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I reviewed Ben Lerner's new novel, which arrives in the midst of a wave of new books reckoning with masculinity nytimes.com/2019/10/01/books…

Speech and Violence Collide in ‘The Topeka School’ (Published 2019)

Ben Lerner’s third novel draws on autobiographical details, like his previous two did, but offers a more conventional plot about a family in Kansas and the coarsening of political language.

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Adored SHIRKERS, @sanditan ‘s reclamation of the Singapore feature footage she was in 20 years ago and the strange man who’d hoarded it for all that time. It’s poignant and weird and funny and beautiful.
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Magdi Jacobs
@magi_jay26 Nov 2017
1/ The NYTimes is densely defending their article by claiming it was intended to shed light on the normalcy of racism in American society. I agree this is a worthy topic of discussion. So, let’s talk about all the things the Times could have *actually* achieved this. . . .
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Dave Kehr@dave_kehr29 Aug 2017
first review of my new book -- not so bad! publishersweekly.com/978-0-2… via @publisherswkly

Movies That Mattered: More Reviews from a Transformative Decade by Dave Kehr

Kehr, a curator for the Museum of Modern Art’s Film Department, follows his first collection of reviews, When Movies Mattered, w...

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That Ali G cameo was like the part of "Austin Powers" where Dr. Evil gets unfrozen and has all these pop-culturally relevant ideas from 1967
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@KPFK17 Sep 2014
RT @JonWiener1: Naomi Klein radio 2day 4pm PST 90.7 in LA, streaming @KPFK.org: @johnpowers on Naomi's awesome new book "This Changes...
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More proof the world's gone nuts: The Sept Issue of Vogue has a lovely piece on me talking about ending capitalism, by the gr8 @johnpowers
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Lena Dunham
@lenadunham24 May 2014
Claims my mother has made in the last 24 hours: that she speaks Farsi, was first in Long Island to discover quilts, has special emojis
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Wes Anderson's #TheGrandBudapestHotel is the year's best movie: bit.ly/1ouwj3F @jpvogue
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Angelina Jolie to Poitier, Poitier to Cuarón, Cuarón to his woman: classiness.
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Now Spike Jonze and Sofia Coppola have his-and-her ex-spouses awards w/ scripts about the breakup of their marriage.
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From Penélope Cruz channeling Grace Kelly to Kate Hudson fulfilling Barbie’s high-fashion dream: bit.ly/1cml2Cy #BestDressed #Oscars
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Catherine Martin: "I often walk into the room and think, Oh God, isn’t my crew getting old? And then I realize, I’m old, too." #Oscars
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Guy Lodge@GuyLodge3 Mar 2014
Fun fact: this was the original casting for FOOL'S GOLD.
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Benedict Cumberbatch photobomb at the #Oscars
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I don't think I could ever make Harrison Ford laugh
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The great thing about Hollywood is the hey actually think Ukraine is watching the Oscars
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1 burger, 1 order fries & 1 drink: that's what's in the limo drivers' swag bag lat.ms/1eIQWbv per @JeffreyLAT #Oscars2014
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The Best Picture #Oscar is still up for grabs—and 6 other things we learned after tonight’s #BAFTAs: bit.ly/1bbs6RF @jpvogue
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